Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead.

Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers

We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen and I will tell you how much you have loved them.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.

A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.

People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble.